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One for the Illuminati!

Billy Bumpsteer

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Friend of mine took his car into a well respected specialist for service etc and basically they have lost the service book.

Car is 23 years old, over 100,000 on it but always well maintained at any cost.

Service book was original, with all stamps (1/3 OPC in early life, the rest specialists)

Owner still has all invoices, receipts, mot's and a detailed log of all work carried out in the cars life.

So what should he do? Service books are on backorder and when they do come have "REPLACEMENT" stamped onto the first page.

Early history was with AFN, JCT600 etc who are well gone now so no chance of getting any replacement stamps until it went to specialist 12 years or so ago.
 
LOST the service book...????

I imagine that a stamped up service book has value to other than the rightful owner, and given some of the threads on here relative to creating identities that do not match the vehicle being marketed in order to add considerable value ... hmm..? :bandit: :?:
 
Billy Bumpsteer said:
Friend of mine took his car into a well respected specialist for service etc and basically they have lost the service book.

Car is 23 years old, over 100,000 on it but always well maintained at any cost.

Service book was original, with all stamps (1/3 OPC in early life, the rest specialists)

Owner still has all invoices, receipts, mot's and a detailed log of all work carried out in the cars life.

So what should he do? Service books are on backorder and when they do come have "REPLACEMENT" stamped onto the first page.

Early history was with AFN, JCT600 etc who are well gone now so no chance of getting any replacement stamps until it went to specialist 12 years or so ago.

Trying to think of a value, but it's actually priceless :eek: A huge compensation figure has to be in order.
 
It will be impossible to replicate the original service book. Other than GDPR most OPCs will have traded under different names in the early years with no data transfer etc so records will be near impossible to find - as would the 'enthusiasm' of anyone in the OPC to do the legwork.

It's always best to scan/copy each page of the service book so you at least have a virtual copy.

Personally I'd be turning the Indy place upside down to find it - or rather they should. Whilst the provenance is there with the invoices/receipts etc trying to sell a 993 on without a service book is as awkward as turning up at a funeral in a black suit and white toweling socks :what:
 
Something like this happened to me some years back with the advent of dash mounted sat nav, way before they were fitted to cars, took my car for an MOT and when it came back the Device was gone !

I refused to pick up the car, the staff protected their employees as you would assume might happen..... I offered a £750 reward for the device and as if by magic the thing magically appeared, I kept the money as apparently it had been left in the staff room for safe keeping by a watchful employee who had forgot that it was in the cupboard with the Rice Krispies !

I don't know what to suggest with this though, they have either lost it, and you all know as well as I do how difficult it is to find a set of keys that you just put down? Or something more untoward has transpired, try the reward for finding ? But I'd check the car literally everywhere !!!!
 
The book has gone, it was thrown away into recycling within a box by mistake. No malice, no sinister reasons, just a stupid mistake.

Owner apparently intends to be buried in car so no chance of it being for sale!
 
service book

If he is not selling it doesn't really matter then. If he has receipts of work done even better. After the Malton thread a potential customer would be far better off getting an inspection done anyway than looking at a dodgy service book!
 
Billy Bumpsteer said:
The book has gone, it was thrown away into recycling within a box by mistake. No malice, no sinister reasons, just a stupid mistake.

Owner apparently intends to be buried in car so no chance of it being for sale!

A genuine mistake it may well have been, but at the very least if it was my garage I would have given the guy the service on his car for free. Its a sign of the times that people think they can be sloppy and careless without any need to redress the situation.
 
There's not much point scouring the land fill sites then if he's keeping it forever...... I thought this an all hands to the pump and let's try help him track down his left leg kind of a post......

Is it worth mentioning where said item might have entered the box where by future owners could try and protect their admission ticket to the Illuminati?
 
In the box with customer supplied service kit, tech said he emptied all parts out of the box and there wasnt any book in there. There was, just he overlooked it!
 
Billy Bumpsteer said:
The book has gone, it was thrown away into recycling within a box by mistake. No malice, no sinister reasons, just a stupid mistake.

Owner apparently intends to be buried in car so no chance of it being for sale!

Lol yep we all keep our cars forever! I pity his relatives then when he snuffs it and they loose (alot) on the sale :nooo:
 
By all accounts he'll be in the glove box ?
 
spongebob squarepants said:
Billy Bumpsteer said:
The book has gone, it was thrown away into recycling within a box by mistake. No malice, no sinister reasons, just a stupid mistake.

Owner apparently intends to be buried in car so no chance of it being for sale!

Lol yep we all keep our cars forever! I pity his relatives then when he snuffs it and they loose (alot) on the sale :nooo:

This...... there will be a cost to someone for this mistake. The fact is the Indy WILL know that and so he should be made to pay for it, he is just not volunteering that. I make a mistake with a customer I compensate them for it. The problem is assigning a figure to that which both parties consider reasonable. By nature both will probably have to compromise and from your comments it feels like the party at loss will be more than reasonable. My starting point would be 10% of the cars current value as a 'generous" you owe me point and go from there :bandit:

It is a BIG mistake, what would he have done if he had lost the car besides 'I'm sorry" = he would claim on the garages Insurance, same applies here ie he should have indemnity Insurance covering loss like this, he is either not aware of that, does not have it, or is trying to avoid making a claim on it :judge:
 
They havent admitted any responsibility in any way. Trouble is they dont really believe the book was in the box with all the service parts apparently, they say no, he say yes. :dont know:
 

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